"Failed to open control device /dev/em8300-0"

[Zbigniew Koziol]

This is xine.

And no, I do not expect really help. Though I would be glad to.

The reason of my writing is different.

I thought for a long time that Google is our friend. That we can find there an 
answer to any technical problem.

Thats right. We can find there _an_ answer. In most cases naive and useless. 
We can hardly find however a solution to the problem.

Why?

Because most what we find on Google are silly discussions by unexperienced 
people. Once they find a solution to their problem they do not bother to 
report back how they solved their problem.

This particular case is possibly not unusual, though silly as well. And 
difficult, because it is silly: I was able to view movies with xine, without 
a problem. And than, one day, I found that I can not. There was a short 
period between, that I could view experiencing problems. That makes me to 
think that the cause of my problems is in hardware. But why? Where?
I can hear sound but have a green xine window instead of movie. In the past, 
turning on or off some other audio applications removed the problem 
temporarily. Now, I know nothing more what I could do. Perhaps reinstall the 
system but that would be a very silly advise. 

Running xine in verbose mode (--verbose) produces a line like that in the 
subjec. And if you care to look on Google for that, you will get exactly the 
same message that I am getting ;) 

I use right now the most recent versions of xine libraries.

zb.


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